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EDTA-GUI: a plant-optimized graphical implementation of the EDTA pipeline enabling lineage-level classification and analysis - BMC Genomics BMC Genomics - Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of plant genomes, shaping genome architecture, gene regulation, and evolutionary innovation. While the Extensive de novo TE Annotator...

#TEsky EDTA-GUI: a plant-optimized graphical implementation of the EDTA pipeline enabling lineage-level classification and analysis doi.org/10.1186/s128...

The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection - Heredity Heredity - The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection

New paper with @vsudbrack.bsky.social. Using pop gen modelling, we show that partial selfing makes selection on tandem repeats more efficient, reducing the associated load across different scenarios. Thanks to @snsf.ch @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regulatory sciences are criminally underappreciated in philosophy of science, especially considering the impact they have on our everyday lives. I'm glad the talented HyeJeong Han is working on changing that! There's much to learn about the roles of institutions in shaping research processes

An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

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Agreed. This is bad, and not good for science. I hope @nanoporetech.com will reconsider.

orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics

#TEworldwide #TEsky

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🚨Hiring a postdoc!

Are you interested in #evolutionarygenomics, #sexchromosomes, #transposableelements & #Sexspecific #recombination in 🐸🧬?

Join my lab @vubrussel.bsky.social
🔹 @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social funded up to 3y
🔹 Deadline 10/3/2026
🔹 Start ~1/6/2026

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Are you a postdoc in plant biology? 🌾🧪

We invite you to join a community of 500+ postdoctoral researchers around the world. plantpostdocs.com/join-us/

Who among us hasn’t produced five pages of crappy writing and then considered defacing the keyboard? Very relatable.

Twist-ONT: Combining nanopore sequencing with the twist comprehensive viral research panel The Twist Comprehensive Viral Research Panel (Twist CVRP) is a probe-based hybridization capture enrichment method for whole-genome sequencing, design…

Interested in virome sequencing on @nanoporetech.com instruments? Check out our latest paper where we publish Twist-ONT, a modified protocol for the Twist Comprehensive Viral Research Panel (by @twistbioscience.com) so that it can be used with ONT.
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Photo of a single leafy stem with an extraordinary cone-like inflorescence of orange flowers with very long, exserted styles. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Up this week: Proteaceae. Flowers are 4-merous, stamens fused to the uniseriate perianth, 1 carpel with a long style & pollen presentation. This Gondwanaland family is found throughout the S. Hemisphere but is most diverse in Australia. 📷: Leucospermum sp/cv. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop - the Node This video is the culmination of several years attempting to: (1) Figure out best practices for modeling protein-protein interactions; (2) Understand the This video is the culmination of several years...

'This video is the culmination of several yrs attempting to: (1) Figure out best practices for modeling ptn-ptn interactions; (2) Understand the outputs of programs like AlphaFold & adjacent software including quantitative metrics;(3) Communicate my thoughts to unwitting victims through workshops'

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#TEsky Host Factors Promoting the LTR Retrotransposon Life Cycle in Plant Cells: Current Knowledge and Future Directions doi.org/10.3390/ijms...

searching a #postdoc for #theoretical research at the interface between #physics, #biology and #popgen to study the #evolution of plant self-incompatibility.
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
www.friedlander-lab.net
see application link in next post.
Please share with relevant candidates.

Aleksey Zimin presents EVIANN (Evidence-based Annotation) While it does not drastically increase the accuracy over existing tools, its speed is ultrafast, can use ONT transcripts, creates UTRs and lncRNAs. #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Coding #PAG33 #PAG2026

Are you working on ancient plant DNA? 🌿

We are organising a symposium on Ancient plant genomics at #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Join Nathan Wales, Shuya Zhang, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, me, and our fantastic speaker Logan Kistler from the Smithsonian Institution.

Help us spread the word!

Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.

My co-conspirator and fellow PhD student Lila writes for The Conversation about how plants have separate sexes, sometimes. Ever wondered something about plant sexual systems? How to start learning about it? I'd say start with this.

🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making!

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Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans.

Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?

@cellpress.bsky.social

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to those who already shared the link!

YouTube video by David Fay David's AlphaFold WorkShop 2026

Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...

Buenos días,
Hoy hace un año, el Dr.Hussam se puso delante de los tanques de Israel para impedir que atacaran el hospital Kamal.
Está en la cárcel, sin cargos, ni juicio, desde entonces.
No olvidemos a Palestina.

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.

Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

"The only kind of thinking that matters in science is structured thinking. The only way to give structure and substance to your thoughts is to write them down. Writing. Is. Thinking."

Thinking about this in the context of AI tools....

PhD position to study epigenomic diversity and altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

Wow. Cells ratcheted up the Transposon Arms Race a notch further than we'd realised.